UID:
almahu_9949481220302882
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:
9780520380912
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9783110993899
Content:
Legal scholar Peter M. Shane confronts U.S. presidential entitlement and offers a more reasonable way of conceptualizing our constitutional presidency in the twenty-first century. In the eyes of modern-day presidentialists, the United States Constitution's vesting of "executive power" means today what it meant in 1787. For them, what it meant in 1787 was the creation of a largely unilateral presidency, and in their view, a unilateral presidency still best serves our national interest. Democracy's Chief Executive challenges each of these premises, while showing how their influence on constitutional interpretation for more than forty years has set the stage for a presidency ripe for authoritarianism. Democracy's Chief Executive explains how dogmatic ideas about expansive executive authority can create within the government a psychology of presidential entitlement that threatens American democracy and the rule of law. Tracing today's aggressive presidentialism to a steady consolidation of White House power aided primarily by right-wing lawyers and judges since 1981, Peter M. Shane argues that this is a dangerously authoritarian form of constitutional interpretation that is not even well supported by an originalist perspective. Offering instead a fresh approach to balancing presidential powers, Shane develops an interpretative model of adaptive constitutionalism, rooted in the values of deliberative democracy. Democracy's Chief Executive demonstrates that justifying outcomes explicitly based on core democratic values is more, not less, constraining for judicial decision making-and presents a model that Americans across the political spectrum should embrace.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Prologue: Toward a Pro-Democracy Constitutional Presidency --
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Part One Aggressive Presidentialism Originalism Done Badly --
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1 From the "Unitary" to the "Entitled" Executive --
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2 The "Chief Prosecutor" Myth --
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3 Politicizing the "Deep State": Presidents and the Bureaucracy --
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Part Two Constitutional Interpretation for Democracy --
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4 The Originalist Mirage of Presidential Power --
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5 Interpreting Democracy's Constitution --
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Part Three Democracy's Chief Executive --
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6 Democracy's Presidency --
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7 Breaking the Grip of Presidentialism --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Suggested Further Reading --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Law 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993004
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Law 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993011
In:
University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766493
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520380912
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520380912?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520380912
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